The Porsche 928 crash off a parking garage would be recycled the following season in The Surrogate (1985) and again in Season 5 in Nightmare (1986).
The character of Shirley Potter is shown living in the Partridge Family house.
David Huffman, who played Dr. Travers, was acting as a good Samaritan on February 27, 1985, and chasing a burglar when the burglar attacked him, stabbing him twice in the chest with a screwdriver. He died at the scene at age 39.
Aired on the day that the (818) area code was created, as a split from (213). It's also the day that Max Riemelt was born.